Premio Aztlán Literary Prize
The Premio Aztlán Literary Prize is a national literary award for emerging Chicana and Chicano authors, founded in 1993 by Rudolfo and Patricia Anaya.[1] The award was originally sponsored by the University of New Mexico, but was moved in 2008 to the National Hispanic Cultural Center.[2]
The award is limited to short-story collections and novels (but not children's or young-adult novels) published by a professional press during the previous calendar year. Moreover, the author must be living and must not have published more than two books. The winner receives $1,000 and presents a lecture at that year's National Latino Writers Conference.[1]
Award recipients include (years refer to the year of publication; the award is given the following year):
- 2013: ire'ne lara silva, flesh to bone[3]
 - 2009: Gloria Zamora, Sweet Nata: Growing Up in Rural New Mexico
 - 2008: Patricia Santana, Ghosts of El Grullo[4]
 - 2007: Verónica Gonzalez, Twin Time or How Death Befell Me
 - 2006: Reyna Grande, Across a Hundred Mountains
 - 2005: Gene Guerin, Cottonwood Saints
 - 2004: Mary Helen Lagasse, The Fifth Sun
 - 2003-2000: no award[5]
 - 1999: Sergio Troncoso, The Last Tortilla and Other Stories
 - 1998: Ronald Ruiz, Giuseppe Rocco
 - 1997: Pat Mora, House of Houses
 - 1996: Wendell Mayo, Centaur of the North
 - 1995: Norma Elia Cantú, Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera
 - 1994: Denise Chávez, Face of an Angel
 - 1993: Alicia Gaspar de Alba, The Mystery of Survival and Other Stories
 
References
- ^ a b Premio Aztlán Literary Prize, 22 November 2008, accessed 4 January 2011.
 - ^ National Hispanic Cultural Center Awards Two Literary Prizes, by Michael Sedano, 30 March 2010, accessed 4 January 2011
 - ^ "Ire'ne lara silva – Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center". Archived from the original on 2016-06-11. Retrieved 2016-06-01.
 - ^ UNM Today Archived 2012-04-02 at the Wayback Machine, 4 May 2009, accessed 4 January 2011
 - ^ Premio Aztlan Literary Prize 2005 Call for Submissions Archived 2011-06-14 at the Wayback Machine (pdf), accessed 4 January 2011